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ECtHR: Turkey Complied with Rights Law in Disbanding Kurdish Group
July 16, 2018
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recently held that Turkish authorities had complied with European human rights law when they dissolved a Kurdish foundation whose covert aim was to establish a “theocratic totalitarian” Kurdish State based on sharia law in Turkey.
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EC Challenges Polish Law on Judges’ Retirement
July 13, 2018
The European Commission (EC) has launched legal proceedings challenging a recently passed Polish law lowering the mandatory retirement age of judges on the country’s Supreme Court from 70 to 65, while giving the President the opportunity to extend their terms, on the ground that the law is a threat to judicial independence.
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Article: Poor External Border Security Threatens Schengen
July 13, 2018
An article in The Economist considers the roots of the ongoing migration crisis in Europe as a function of European leaders who established the passport-free Schengen travel area and were only “dimly aware that eliminating internal borders required strengthening external ones.”
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EU Parliament Rejects Proposed Copyright Reforms
July 13, 2018
Politico reports that the European Parliament has rejected a proposal that would have required internet companies like Facebook and Google to step up their enforcement of EU copyright rules on their platforms and would have granted copyright license holders more power to enforce their rights against encroachment in online fora.
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Lawyer: EU Procurement Rules Could Support Foreign Lawsuits
July 12, 2018
Eamonn Conlon of the law firm A&L Goodbody asserts that the 2014 EU Procurement Directives, as transposed into the national laws of EU members, could be the basis for a cause of action against companies that have procurement contracts with governments for labor rights abuses in foreign countries.
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